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Sharla Gelfand
I am a statistician and an R and Shiny developer. My work focuses on developing tools that enable easier access to data (such as my R package, opendatatoronto) and replacing manual, repetitive work with reproducible and future-proof processes. I write about R at sharla.party and contribute to open source.
Experience
Freelance R and Shiny Developer
N/A
Toronto, ON
Jan. 2018 - Present
- Incorporated d3.js to the company’s main software platform.
- Incorporated d3.js to the company’s main software platform.
Statistician
College of Nurses of Ontario
Toronto, ON
Jul. 2018 - Sep. 2019
- Incorporated d3.js to the company’s main software platform.
- Built internal tool to help analyze and visualize user interaction with back-end products.
Data Analyst
Wattpad
Toronto, ON
Apr. 2017 - Jun. 2018
- Incorporated d3.js to the company’s main software platform.
- Worked with the product analytics team to help parse and visualize large stores of data to drive business decisions.
Product Analyst
Unbounce
Vancouver, BC
Nov. 2015 - Mar. 2017
- Incorporated d3.js to the company’s main software platform.
- Envisioned
- prototyped and implemented visualization framework in the course of one month.
Education
Msc, Statistics
Simon Fraser University
Vancouver, BC
2013 - 2015
- Incorporated d3.js to the company’s main software platform.
- 2020
- Working on Bayesian network models & interactive visualization platforms
Bsc, Statistics (minor in Economics)
University of Calgary
Calgary, AB
2010 - 2013
- Incorporated d3.js to the company’s main software platform.
- 2015
- Thesis: An agent based model of Diel Vertical Migration patterns of Mysis diluviana
Talks
Don’t repeat yourself, talk to yourself! Repeated reporting in the R universe
RStudio Conference
San Francisco, CA
Jan. 2020
Cleaning Federal Election Data
University of Toronto iSchool Data Cleaning Brown Bag
Toronto, ON
Oct. 2019
Demo’ing the opendatatoronto R package
Greater Toronto Area R Users Group
Toronto, ON
Sep. 2019
Opinionated Strategies for Uncharted Territories: Strategies for working with new data
Greater Toronto Area R Users Group and R-Ladies Toronto
Toronto, ON
Mar. 2019